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Programming Practices are the commonly or not so commonly used practices in development of software. These can include things like Agile Development, Kanban, Coding shortcuts, etc.
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Is it better to have separate functions or add more arguments to a function?
This depends on the context. Both options have its pros and cons and tradeoffs are to be made.
Both at once
Freedom of choice - allowing setChannelOneVoltage(220) as well as setVoltage(1, 220).
Ev …
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Unit testing of non-atomic methods
If getNumberFromMordor and makeSomeOperation are public, they should be tested by themselves, so your unit test should not doublecheck that getNumberFromMordor works correctly.
Only test what SomeNo …
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Is throwing new RuntimeExceptions in unreachable code a bad style?
I don't know if there's a convention.
Anyhow, another trick would be to do like so:
private <T> T rethrow(Exception exception) {
// or whatever it actually does
Log.e("Ouch! " + exception.g …
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Stacking keywords on top of each other - poor style?
I'd say I'm against it. I'll come around and add some code after try...catch without noticing that I should have extended the scope of lock.
And, more importantly, this version doesn't really reduce …
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Is using hashes for primary keys a good idea?
Hashes will inevitably collide if they're smaller than all possible combinations of data.
See this excellent answer: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/145633
If primary keys are not s …
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Any recognized convention for repository changelogs?
We use TortoiseSVN, but we have no bug tracking system. I know, lame, but beyond my control.
There were times when svn wasn't in daily use.
Now I've had succeeded in pressing for using it regularly, …
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Is throwing an exception an anti-pattern here?
I just had a discussion over a design choice after a code review. I wonder what your opinions are.
There's this Preferences class, which is a bucket for key-value pairs. Null values are legal (that' …
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